Nicole  is an advisor by profession and an author,a builder, a fixer by passion,and a challenger. She loves tearing things apart to understand them, and then try to prove or disprove their merit.This allows her to move through life with an air of certainty about what she knows, and also what she doesn’t know.When Draffenlived abroad, the social and cultural consciousness of the people she met,and the things she observed,inspired her natural inclination to understand and study the value of cultural norms.The more she traveled overseas, the more she grew to understand certain aspects of the Americanperception of culture. The culmination of her journeys were the lead-up and the inspiration to starting the global socialmovement, HYPHENED-NATION™. A mission that further prompted writing her bookof the same title,with sub-titleand ongoing penchant:DON’T CHECK THE BOX/HYPHENATION CREATES SEPARATION.